Our thanks go out to Phantomfish for bringing us the great news that Masterpiece Grimlock is now available from the Toys r U­s website here.  He'll cost you £­59.99 but has also been physically sighted on shelves.  Let the race begin.­

We have updated our image gallery of the unreleased prototype of Green Warrior Lio Convoy from Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo.  The gallery was recently updated with some stills from the Beast Wars II episodes where Lio Convoy and Lion Convoy Jr merge into the Green Warrior but now for the first time you can view a complete image gallery of the toy that is sometimes, wrongly,  referred to as a Takara Staff item.

We have also included comparison images with our entire Lio Convoy collection which includes the original release, black, gold, galva, flash, both robot masters and a knock-off.  Enjoy

TFW2005.com board member Magnus' Mate has spotted a new book listing on Amazon UK titled ­­The Transformers Vault: The Complete Transformers Universe.­ The book is listed as being 160 pages and is written by Pablo Hidalgo. The author has received mix reviews for his work in the past, but the publisher ABRAMS, received lavish praise for their Star Wars book which was also called The Valt.

The book, I expect, will cover a wide spectrum of the Transformers Universe from the toys, to comics, cartoons and merchandise. Obviously there is no way you could cover everything in 160 pages, but it will be worth keeping an eye on

We’ve confirmed that the item in question is exclusive to the Asia market – not the U.S. Sorry for any confusion.

This set was rumored to be a Target Exclusive, but it appears there are no plans to release it within the USA at this time.

Credit to The AllSpark for the news

• Never Hold Back
• I’m Still Here
• Don’t Give Up On Love
• Two Hearts
• In My Life
• Love Is The Road
• If This Is All There Is
• Dream The Dream
• More Than A Miracle
• Your Time
• All That I Am
• Sam’s Theme (The Touch)

Our Lucky Draw Transformers Animated Optimus Prime Gold Version has now arrived, complete with TakaraTomy dispatch case.  A gallery of the figure will not be added to the website tonight, but if you are a fan of the site on Facebook  (www.facebook.com/transformertoys) you can see a couple of preview images right now.

I can tell you that the toy, which was suppose to be limited to 1000 pieces is actually limited to 1104.  In our last news update we announced that the figure is packed 12 to the case, well there were 92 sent out by TakaraTomy so where the other 1104 figures were suppose to end up is probably the missing link that explains why so many lucky draw figures appear to be made in larger quantities than their original prize draws intend.

More on this when the gallery is published.

A new YouTube video has been posted from the Detroit set of Transformers 3.  You can view the video below.

Higekuma Toy Toy blog have posted lots of photographs of TakaraTomy's Transformers Animated Samurai Prowl toy including comparisons with both the regular  TakaraTomy Prowl and the Hasbro release of the same toy.  You can view he images here.

Credit to The Allspark for the news.

Just a quick update to anyone following us on Twitter.  Our Twitter integration is currently broken and I am currently talking to the Twitter Tech team to find out what went wrong.  It should be fixed in the next 24 hours though, sorry for lack of tweets though this month.

Facebook users, our automatic Facebook updates are unaffected as our Custom Facebook Api is still up and running.

Myspace users .... do you still exist?  We've not bothered to use our Myspace account in years and have no plans, sorry.

We have added some new galleries containing scans from some of the Japanese Hobby Magazines.  The update includes the October issue of TV Boy, the September issue of Hyper Hobby and Figure King (AKA Figure Oh) issue 151 (the September issue).